--- title: "4 Dead man Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson" description: "4 Dead man quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson. Plus more from Robert Louis Stevenson and more Dead man sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/robert-louis-stevenson-289_adventure-fiction_15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-a_1028561.jpg" --- > [“15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/robert-louis-stevenson-289_adventure-fiction_15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-a_1028561.jpg) > [There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/there-were-nights-when-he-took-a-deal-more-rum-and-water-than-his/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c1/robert-louis-stevenson-289_bottles_there-were-nights-when-he-took-a-deal-mo_1173834.jpg) > [“was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. I might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/was-dog-tired-when-a-little-before-dawn-the-boatswain-sounded-his/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c8/robert-louis-stevenson-289_dark-night_was-dog-tired-when-a-little-before-dawn_1293487.jpg) > [Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/fifteen-men-on-the-dead-man-s-chest-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/robert-louis-stevenson-289_bottles_fifteen-men-on-the-dead-man-s-chest-yo-h_1639291.jpg) ## Other authors on Dead man - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-patricia-briggs-73497.jpg) Patricia Briggs 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dead-man/patricia-briggs/) ## More by Robert Louis Stevenson > [You must suffer me to go my own dark way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/you-must-suffer-me-to-go-my-own-dark-way/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/nobody-speaks-of-a-beautifful-view-for-5-minutes/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/we-are-all-travelers-in-the-wilderness-of-this-world-and-the-best/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/the-little-rift-between-the-sexes-is-astonishingly-widened-by-simply/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/the-problem-of-education-is-twofold-first-to-know-and-then-to-utter/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/for-thirty-years-he-said-i-ve-sailed-the-seas-and-seen-good-and-bad/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/mutiny-it-was-plain-hung-over-us-like-a-thunder-cloud/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/jealousy-is-the-most-radical-primeval-and-naked-form-of-admiration-in/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/it-is-the-property-of-things-seen-for-the-first-time-or-for-the-first/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/you-have-no-idea-unless-you-have-tried-it-how-endlessly-long-is-a/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/do-not-measure-success-by-today-s-harvest-measure-success-by-the/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/to-be-idle-requires-a-strong-sense-of-personal-identity/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [Saints are sinners who kept on going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/saints-are-sinners-who-kept-on-going/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/loving-god-help-us-remember-the-birth-of-jesus-that-we-may-share-in/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) > [The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/the-friendly-cow-all-red-and-white-i-love-with-all-my-heart-she-gives/) [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-louis-stevenson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dead-man/robert-louis-stevenson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Dead man Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Louis Stevenson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-louis-stevenson/15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/robert-louis-stevenson-289_adventure-fiction_15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-a_1028561.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/robert-louis-stevenson-289_adventure-fiction_15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-a_1028561.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/robert-louis-stevenson-289_adventure-fiction_15-men-on-the-dead-mans-chest-yo-ho-ho-a_1028561.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” — Robert Louis Stevenson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... 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But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the HISPANIOLA had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. I am not going to relate that voyage in detail. It was fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship, the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly understood his business. But before we came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require to be known. Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared. He had no command among the men, and people did what they pleased with him. But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time he was ordered below in disgrace. Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably. In the meantime, we could never make out where he got the drink. That was the ship's mystery. Watch him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh if he were drunk, and if he were sober deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water. He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more. \"Overboard!\" said the captain. \"Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons.\" But there we were, without a mate; and it was necessary, of course, to advance one of the men. 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